Bowl Championship Series (BCS)
Many are complaining about the matchup between Miami and Nebraska in the Rose Bowl as less than a national chapionship game could have been. Many complain that the process used incorrectly chose Nebraska for a number 2 ranking. A computer program decided based on a myriad of criteria which two teams should be matched up in the Rose Bowl to decide a national champion.
Get real. Why is a national champion necessary anyway. The college teams across the US come from myriad divisions, with each team coming from a program different one from the other. There is no way under these circumstances that a single team can claim to be national champion regardless of what the BCS committee says. We aren't talking about the NFL where each team has the same number of players to pick from, a salary cap to create a level playing field and each team plays 8 games in their conference and 8 from outside their conference. The college team schedules have no real rhyme or reason other than within their specfic conference.
The concept of a nation champion is a joke. If the sports writers want to pretend to select a national champion, as they used to, let them. Who really cares. The BCS system should be dumped. Attempting to create something rationale from something irrationale is a joke and eveyone who takes the BCS system seriously, should just get a life.
01/05/02 ( 503 )
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